英语词汇“negro town”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Negro town n. a town inhabited by black people; (Jamaican) spec. any of the small towns formed by maroons and runaway slaves in Jamaica before settlement with the maroons in 1739; (hence, more generally) any town formed in similar circumstances (now historical).

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1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 97 Ten of our Men advanced toward the Negro Town that was next to us.

1731 Jrnl. House of Assembly Jamaica 6 It is the opinion of the committees, that the soldiers be marched into the several negro-towns, and barracked there.

1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. (frontispiece map) Negro Town.

1877 Harper's Mag. Apr. 675/2 A filthy negro town, with sand a foot deep in its streets.

1942 Z. N. Hurston Dust Tracks on Road i. 1 I was born in a Negro town. I do not mean by that the black back-side of an average town. Eatonville, Florida, is, and was at the time of my birth, a pure Negro town.

1951 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 36 253 By 1912..the existence among the seminole of Negro towns..was a source of general irritation to the slave-owners of the Deep South.

单词	negro town
释义	> as lemmas Negro town Negro town n. a town inhabited by black people; (Jamaican) spec. any of the small towns formed by maroons and runaway slaves in Jamaica before settlement with the maroons in 1739; (hence, more generally) any town formed in similar circumstances (now historical). ΚΠ 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 97 Ten of our Men advanced toward the Negro Town that was next to us. 1731 Jrnl. House of Assembly Jamaica 6 It is the opinion of the committees, that the soldiers be marched into the several negro-towns, and barracked there. 1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. (frontispiece map) Negro Town. 1877 Harper's Mag. Apr. 675/2 A filthy negro town, with sand a foot deep in its streets. 1942 Z. N. Hurston Dust Tracks on Road i. 1 I was born in a Negro town. I do not mean by that the black back-side of an average town. Eatonville, Florida, is, and was at the time of my birth, a pure Negro town. 1951 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 36 253 By 1912..the existence among the seminole of Negro towns..was a source of general irritation to the slave-owners of the Deep South. extracted from Negron.adj. < as lemmas
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